@Bleachedsmiles I don’t think you understand what insecurity means, or the irony of calling someone else insecure while coming across very defensive.
“Wait, you think the ps5 digital was designed and released because Xbox announced the series s??? I’m not sure that’s how it really works”
Why, because removing a disk drive and altering the shape of a plastic cover aren’t something that could be decided at short notice?
“The whole point of gamepass is removing barriers of entry – this is why Xbox is putting so much effort in offering gamepass outside of the constraints of an Xbox… you have the option of digesting it the same way you can Netflix – through an app on any technology that supports it.”
Which incur costs to access. What hardware can I currently enjoy Netflix on that doesn’t have a barrier to entry.
“Just do the tiniest bit of reading to learn about Pentiment…what it meant to the dev, and why it’s being made – it’s not because MS insisted obsidian work on an indie game, behave.”
I didn’t say it was, I said it was greenlit because it would have been significantly cheaper and quicker to develop. It’s a niche low cost game that will help pad out their service.
“Bingo! You can’t offer concerns over quality yet.”
You were quick to highlight Halo and remove it from the topic of conversation when you first asked me because you knew it was the glaringly obvious example. That is my example of concerns over quality, their biggest ip on their new system being complete garbage.
“But I do enjoy how you guys speak like you thought every Xbox first party game was a 10/10 before the existence of gamepass”
Who are “you guys”? and what do you know of my opinion on Xbox games before gamepass?
“It’s all irrational. You’re scared that ‘Xbox has no games’ suddenly has games?”
Does it? I’m still waiting to see or play them. Hopefully 2023 will be the year we were told 2022 was going to be and give me a reason to buy a Series X.
“You’re concerned about the harm gamepass will do to the gaming industry…yet at the same time concerned you can’t trade in your games??!”
Yes. What about that confuses you?
“Look at it like this, are Google a struggling company? Did stadia take over the world and destroy gaming for you?”
They were too late to the game and began horribly. They certainly had the money to be competitive but didn’t have the following, brand, catalogue or developers on board to make an impact. The advertising for it was terrible, it launched with technical issues from resolution to server problems, and it had a very limited library of games.
“but you know the best benefit of a subscription service? It’s not a huge upfront investment…it’s a monthly one. You don’t like it? Don’t like the quality it puts out? Then you simply hit this button called ‘cancel subscription’…and because it’s so easy to hit that button do you think that’s more or less incentive to put out quality games?”
Has the cancel button incentivised Netflix to put out better quality, or has it motivated them to increase prices and clamp down on things like account sharing? Luckily for us Netflix didn’t have the financial clout to go around buying up huge sections of the film and tv industry because that would have been terrible for the consumer….hold on a second.
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